Distance Between Touch
Selected and awarded by The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, 2024
Exhibition at River House Arts
September 11 - October 23. 2025
Continuing research sponsored by the Alexander-Tutsek Stiftung and Berlin Glas e.V
Each panel is made through optical contacting, a process developed for precision optics and deep space, where adhesives would cloud the glass or fail under pressure. Two sheets of commercial float glass, the material of everyday windows, are brought together until they bond through molecular attraction alone. Where the surfaces truly meet, they fuse into dark, inky islands. Where microscopic undulations hold them apart, a layer of air one wavelength thick stays trapped between them, and under light it resolves into Newton rings: concentric bands of spectral color, like oil on water, mapping a landscape the eye normally can't see. The series is Justin Ginsberg's first body of work in industrial float glass after years of hand-formed hot glass. It carries his long study of distance down to its smallest possible scale.
Distance Between Touch
24” x 24” x 2”
Architectural Float Glass (provided by NSG Pilkington)
2025
Distance Between Touch (with custom vitrine)
36” x 43” x 82”
Architectural Float Glass (provided by NSG Pilkington)
2025
Touch Screen
28” x 16” x 1”
2024
Framing Float Glass
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Black Mirrors - Topographies
24” x 24” x 2” (each)
Architectural Float Glass (provided by NSG Pilkington)
2025.